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At the Super Bowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar indeed performed his smash diss track Not Like Us and brought out Samuel L. Jackson, Serena Williams, and SZA. We're recapping the Super Bowl, including why we saw so many celebrities in commercials this year. Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kori Vaakulman. Jordan's King Abdullah will be at the White House this morning to meet President Trump. This comes after Trump called for the U.S. to take over Gaza and for Jordan and Egypt

to take in displaced Palestinians. NPR's Jane Araf reports from Amman. The day before the White House meeting, Trump threatened Jordan with aid cuts if it didn't agree to the plan. Jordan, a key U.S. security partner, needs the aid provided by Washington. But according to former foreign minister Marwan Washer, accepting Trump's plan would mean the country would cease to exist in many ways. This is an existential issue to Jordan that does not lend itself

to any economic pressure from the United States. He points out that expelling Palestinians to Jordan would breach the peace treaty it signed with Israel three decades ago, and that this is a rare case where Arab countries, including powerful Saudi Arabia, are united in opposing it. Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman, Jordan. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country will respond firmly to steel and aluminum tariffs President Trump imposed yesterday. Dan Karpenchuk reports

Trudeau says the 25 percent tariffs are unjustified and unacceptable. Trudeau stopped short of committing to a dollar-for-dollar retaliation as he has for the now-paused import tariffs, but he says his government will stand up for Canadian workers and Canadian industries. Trudeau also says his government will be working with the Trump administration ahead of the tariffs coming into effect to point out how deeply integrated the U.S. and Canadian steel and aluminum markets are. They include defense, shipbuilding and auto manufacturing. When Trump introduced similar tariffs in 2018, Canada retaliated during

free trade negotiations before it received an exemption. Trudeau is in Paris working to strengthen Canada-EU trade ties as both face tariff threats from Washington. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpanchuk in Toronto. All work has stopped at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency's job, to make sure Americans are getting fair and transparent treatment from financial products and services, such as banks. Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren helped create the bureau. She went to a protest outside the agency headquarters in Washington yesterday.

She says President Trump and his allies have told staffers not to do any work. Now think about this. I want you to think about this for a minute. No matter how big the scam, no matter how bold the trap, they have said, just stand by and let the Wall Street boys take your money. The Republican staff on the Senate Banking Committee wrote online that Trump's changes will help bring responsibility back to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A big winter storm is coming to the Central and Eastern U.S. this morning.

Winter storm advisories and warnings stretch from Texas to New Jersey. This is NPR. Federal and state health officials in Nevada are reporting a new type of bird flu has been found in a dairy worker there. This type of flu is different from the type that has been circulating recently in U.S. dairy herds. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the dairy worker had mild symptoms and has recovered. The CDC says this is the first time this type of bird flu has been traced to a cow. Science is showing that mental health and well-being change throughout the seasons, throughout the week, and even throughout the day.

Emily Kwong reports on a new study from the journal BMJ Mental Health. Across one million observations from 50,000 adults in the UK, gathered by the University College London, mental health and well-being tended to be better in the summer than in the winter. And on average, the group's mood was best in the morning. But if this makes you night owls shake your fists with rage, don't worry. Study author Fei-Fei Bu knows this model does not speak for everyone everywhere. What we focus on mostly in the study is a group trend. It's not a personal rule book.

But, Bu says, data like this can help mental health care providers adjust their treatments to match a patient's fluctuating needs across the day. For NPR News, I'm Emily Kwong. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to testify this morning before the Senate banking committee. He is expected to be questioned about the future of short-term interest rates. Powell is scheduled to speak to a House committee tomorrow morning.

I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, from Washington.